Hair structure



(No Model.)

J. Y. BURDEN.

HAIR STRUCTURE.

PatentedFeb In ven tar, zfa meo' K .Ziordel UNTTED STATES PATENT QEETQE.

JAMES Y. BORDEN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAIR STRUGTU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,428, dated.-February 2, 1897. Application filed May 15,1896. Serial No. 591,655. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES Y. BORDEN, acitizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,have invented certain Improvements in Hair Structures, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to construct a wig, wave, bang, or otherhair structure in such a manner that it can be made cheaply and yet moresubstantial than the structures heretofore made and which can be takenapart and reconstructed to form a different structure when the fashionschange and can be readily repaired in case there is a defect in anysection. I

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of ahair structure in the form of afront piece, and Fig. 2 is an invertedplan View of the same structure.

Heretofore in the manufacture of wigs and hair structures of this typeit has been common to attach the hair in single strands to a hair-netwhich extends under the entire struc ture, except at the free ends. Thisstructure is very costly to manufacture in the first place and the netrots very quickly owing to the perspiration from the head, and if asection should give away the entire hair structure would have to bediscarded. Furthermore, the structure made in this manner is veryfragile, owing to the method of attaching the hair to the base, so thatit will not withstand combing to any great extent.

By my invention I only use a narrow strip A of hair-netting with hairattached at the center to make the part. The main body of the hair isnot attached directly to the net.

The net A is bordered by a band ct'of substantial m aterial, and to thisborder is attached strands of hair in the same manner as the hair isattached to the not.

On each side of the central piece A are a series of extensions orloops 1) made of hair weft according to my Patent No. 431,887,

dated July 8, 1890, and Patent No. 489,283, dated January 3, 1893.

The loops 1) are connected together, as shown, and the base-loop issecurely attached to the band or border a of the piece A.

I have shown in the present instance three sets of loops on each side,the center set having the greater number of loops to give the shapeshown in the drawings. The main body of hair extends from these loops,and as the loops themselves are made from the hair weft and bound in asubstantial manner it is impossible to detach the hair by the ordinarycombing.

The structure will not rot so readily as those heretofore used, as theloops allow for thorough ventilation, and the headwill not perspire to agreater extent than is common with the natural hair, as the bands A ofnetting are so narrow as to have very little effect.

In some instances the loops of hair weft may extend at one or both ends,as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, when necessary, and one side mayhave a greater number of loops than the other if the part is to be onone side or if more hair is required on one side than the other.

I claim as my invention- 1. As a new article of manufacture, ahairstructure having a center piece of netting with hair attached to theupper face thereof and having loops of hair weft attached to the edgethereof, the hair of said loops forming the main body of the hairstructure.

2. The combination in a hair structure, of; the central strip of net,hair attached to the upper surface thereof, a border secured thereto,hair attached to the upper face of the border, with a series of loopscomposed of hair weft, said loops attached to the border and forming thebody of the hair structure, sub stantially as described.

3. The combination of a narrow strip of netting forming the center ofthe hair structure, hair attached to the upper surface thereofsufficient to cover the netting, with a series of looped sections ofhair weft attached at intervals along each side of the said strip, eachsection composed of one or more loops and the said sections forming themain body of the hair structure.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES Y. BORDEN.

Witnesses:

WILL A. BARR, Jos. 1-1. KLEIN.

